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Calibre & TTRPGs

2020-07-29T05:53:22Z

Calibre & TTRPGs

(Originally posted at Silver Does Stuff)

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TTRPG votes / info round-up

2019-05-06T02:31:35Z

So far the following people are interested via Twitter & Dreamwidth:

Ana Mardoll

Tyler MoonSage

Teteli / Grammarly Eli

Rook Stone

possibly LB Lee, if things work out

Games voted for:

Becoming Familiar (2 votes)

Everyday's a Battle

Giving up the Ghost

Kintsugi (2 votes)

Wizards (2 votes)

Liturgy of the Dragon

Places:

Google Hangouts (2 votes & my preference)

Discord

Considering the possible participants it'll either be text-only, or voice & text duplicating each other (with me taking as much of the work as needed)

Please comment below with your timezone & what general days / times work for you (for example, Monday Evenings). You can comment with no dreamwidth account - select anonymous (the first radio button) and just put your name in the comment.

Once we have a general idea, I'll use When Is Good, or similar site for us to pinpoint.

I'm on Pacific Time, and any time next week is good, except for Monday (tomorrow) evening

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Who wants to play a TTRPG?

2019-05-05T03:07:45Z

I want to try running one of the many weird / funny / unique tabletop rpgs I've downloaded off itch.io, but I need people to play with. I'd like to run them on Google Hangouts, Skype, or (possibly) Discord.

I've managed to narrow it down some. If you're interested, let me know what you'd like (pick 3), where you'd like to play, and what mode (text, audio, mixed). I'll post descriptions and links in the next post, because Dreamwidth is being a GIANT PAIN. They're all free / pay what you want. Some of them might be image only, but I'll reformat anything needed.

You can also just tell me what you want, here or on Twitter or whatever.

View Poll: ttrpg

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Games!

2019-05-05T03:00:03Z

Becoming Familiar - You and your fellow players will portray crows trying to cheer up a sad witch. However, since you are crows, your methods for a) discovering what’s upsetting the witch and b) helping her with her problems are seriously limited. In fact, you run a constant risk of misinterpreting her human feelings, and nearly all of your methods of help are considered criminal by human standards.

Capybara Capers - A super elite team of capybaras has been assembled to steal the mythical Awesome Lemon once and for all. But each of you have your own motives... and there may very well be a traitor in your midst. Can you afford to trust one another?

Cementville - you're wizards in a small midwestern town trying to make things better.

Crash Pandas - You're a bunch of raccoons, all trying to drive the same car, looking to make their names in the dangerous world of LA street racing.

Every Day's A Battle - The war is over. You and a few companions are heavy-conversion combat cyborgs built for the previous war, ill-suited for the new peace. The military has removed your weapons, leaving just your mix of mechanical & fleshy body parts, and pointed you to a job placement service. That service, in turn, has found you positions in basic office and clerical work. Every day is still a battle, just not the kind you were built and trained for.

Giving Up the Ghost - This is a rules-light wacky game about ancient evil overlords trying to hide in their old age among fellow old people in a retirement village. However they all quickly become bored and form a Mystery Club to solve old people crimes. Things tend to go a bit off the rails quickly as failure is unacceptable and they tend to fall back into their old ways to get things done, and necromancy has pretty noticeable side effects!

Kintsugi - Play as a Robot, Mutant, or a Magical Golem; someone who can't die and quickly learns new skills or abilities. Simple but elegant rules allow you to create your characters as you play, building them up one failure at a time.

Liturgy of the Dragon - you're kobolds. The dragons you worship are gone. What does your church do now?

Trashkin - Play a half-possum, a goatgirl, a raccoon-man or a ratboy and plunge headfirst into a grotty world full of low-calibre adventure for fun and no profit.

Wizards - Wield ULTIMATE POWER in WIZARDS. A simple game that needs only 2 to 5 victims, a d6, possibly a hat, and a healthy disregard for the rules of nature.

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Conlang Stuff

2019-05-04T19:26:29Z

Conlang Stuff

(Originally posted at Silver Does Stuff)

I’ve uploaded the newest version of the Nyjichun wikis! There is now one for the grammar and one for the lexicon (aka, all the words). They are SO a work in progress and are full of notes to myself and half-finished stuff.

In addition to that, I recently made a twine game for a jam on itch.io. I redid my conlang Tynthna. It now has actual IPA sounds and a few more words than it did before. And lots of sound recordings! Which may or may not be accurately said! (when in doubt, the orthography is canon). You can play it in your browser on itch.io.

That makes three conlangs that I’m sort of currently working on: Nyjichun, Tynthna, and Ie. I’ve also done a tiny bit in Ylis (the language of the Thunderian capital) lately, because I needed to be able to say Thunderian for on A Heroic Moment without actually referencing Thundercats. (It’s Lunderka for singular and Lunderkusa for plural – and that’s literally the only words I have for it right now, because the old version was from before I knew what IPA was).

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Link Dump – Echidna edition

2013-08-23T17:15:11Z

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

Echidnas are named after a Greek monster that was half women and half snake, and gave birth to most of the other monsters. That seems a bit unfair, considering how cute they are. There are four species of echidna and they’re related to the one species of platypus. Platypuses will fuck you up.

Lots of links, sorry no pictures this time. Feeling too lazy.

Fossil Words of Yore in the Offing “we may wait with bated breath for something in the offing, but it’s unlikely that anything else in our experience is ever bated, or that we’ve made any other use of the noun offing.” (From the MacMillan Dictionary Blog)

Princess Princess “Sadie and Amira are two very different princesses who decide to take their fairy tale into their own hands!” Short finished comic (44 pages) Lovely bits: Sadie is fat and can’t sing. Amara is a WOC and has awesome hair. The unicorn is not too bright. Not so lovely: they treat a guy like dirt for being a bit sexist and the villain uses fat-shaming and ableist language.

1-Up Mushroom Pizza Rolls “When you need energy to make it through the mushroom kingdom on you way to rescue Princess Peach (again), level up your game with these 1-Up Mushroom Pizza Rolls.” (from Kitchen Overlord)

Look Straight Ahead “Jeremy Knowles is a 17-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question.” TW: depiction of schizophrenia based on the creator’s experience. Complete.

Beyond the Binary: Master Post “twenty four questions about gender, sex, sexuality, genderqueer issues, trans issues, stuff, things, the kitchen sink etc. answered by an amazing panel. Some of it’s 101 – some of it 201 – some questions that we get asked all the time, and some that many won’t have considered before.” (from A Gentleman and a Scholar)

Let’s Be Real: Balancing Life’s Roles “We say that ‘real men don’t eat quiche’ or ‘real women have curves,’ and it lets us draw arbitrary boundaries around broad identities in order to make them more exclusive, more secure.” (from Balancing Jane)

The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly… CN: discussion of benevolent sexism and history of research about sexism. The comments aren’t too bad, but there’s gender essentialism, sexism, and call outs of ‘reverse sexism’ there. Of course.

16 Words That Are Much Older Than They Seem (from Mental Floss)

Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch “Placed in a brain scanner, psychopathic criminals watched videos of one person hurting another and were asked to empathise with the individual in pain. Only when asked to imagine how the pain receiver felt did the area of the brain related to pain light up.” TW: the other links of the page are probably triggering (from BBC News)

What is an ontological metaphor? “metaphor in which an abstraction, such as an activity, emotion, or idea, is represented as something concrete, such as an object, substance, container, or person.” (Glossary of Linguistics terms) (Saving for when I get back to conlanging)

English words with Chinese characteristics “Chinese netizens are making up new English words based on very Chinese cultural phenomenon, making the foreign language a unique part of China’s online popular culture” (from Offbeat China)

Willard Suitcase Project – Jon Crispin is photographing the contents suitcases left behind by patients of the Willard Asylum. It’s very non-judgemental and each suitcase acts as a time capsule.

Pokemayan – Pokemon redesigned by a Mexico-based artist (from Monarobot)

SNESbox.com – play NES and SNES games in your browser.

Social justice link roundup (from Pharyngula Wiki)

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Link Dump – Bibliobibuli Edition

2013-07-11T19:06:32Z

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

bibliobibuli n. – those who read too much, and hence tend to be unaware of or oblivious to the real world

Trying to clear out the backlog of links so this is going to be a big one. But I’m including pretties this time.

(as always pics are linked to their source and you can view more of my favorites on DeviantArt)

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Link Dump – Mandrill edition

2013-06-27T20:56:21Z

Mirrored from Shenanigans - Curiously Lydean.

Prints & Photographs, Tissandier Collection – hundreds of old prints, including lots and lots of hot air balloons. Good for steampunk stuff. (from the Library of Congress)

The Magazine Rack – free digitized magazines that are out of copyright. Omni, Galaxy, Heavy Metal, lots others. Available in PDF, epub, mobi, djvu, some more. Preview it before you download – if they did OCR it’s terrible, but scans are good. (from Archive.org)

My Robot Nation – design a robot and get it 3-D printed. It costs to get it printed, but it’s fun just to play with it.

Stagecoach Mary Fields – incrediably badass black woman. (link CN: violence, gun violence, historical racism). Apparently she’s going to get a movie soon, which will be awesome. (from BlackCowboys.com)

From gay marriage to cougar wives, the Victorians have much to teach us (CN: ableist language) (From Guardian.co.uk)

Pattern Cooler – where I got my background. You can customize the colors and size of thousands of seamless patterns. PNGs are free, other options cost.

What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. A talk delivered at Readercon in 2010. (from Kestrell.dreamwidth.com)

How not to be a privileged ass: A lazy person’s guide (from Stealing Commas)

Giving the gift of worlds – “Non-fiction opens up the world we live in, teaching us more about our surroundings. Fiction opens countless others. It lets you climb inside the head of somebody else and see the universe through their eyes for a while. If the character in question resembles you, it can make you feel less isolated. If they don’t, you gain understanding and empathy for people whose experiences of life are entirely different from your own.” She’s looking for recommendations for ebooks with minority or women protagonists. (from Tea-Fuelled Musings)

(Sorry, I don’t have the energy to deal with selecting, resizing, and linking pictures. Look here for pretties.)

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